Adult Dependancy Increase for Foreign wives

[ljukes]

I heard today of a British man who has worked abroad for many years but kept up his contributions for his State Pension receiving an increase in his UK State Pension for his Adult Dependant wife of £57 a week. His wife is Thai, has never set foot in the UK or contributed to the UK economy and they will be living in Thailand when he finishes work abroad.

I am abroad, after paying in to  the UK system for 39 years, but receive no increases in my State Pension because I live in the Middle East.

No wonder pensioners who happen to live in the wrong country don't get increases when our money is being paid out to foreign wives who've never put a penny into the British system. Sounds wrong to me.